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you repel his advances, will kick the deer and kill him. You will 

 then break out in lamentations over the death of the deer, your 

 brother, and insist that you cannot endure caresses unless your eyes 

 behold the deer alive, if only for a moment." 



In due time all happens as prearranged. The amorous trick 

 king, to please his new queen, enters the body of the dead deer, 

 and immediately the parrot, who manages to be present, reoccupies 

 his own body. Vikrama then mercifully enables the wicked Yogin 

 to reenter his own body. Shamed and contrite he is allowed to go 

 his way. 



The story in this form is unquestionably less well motivated 

 than that of the Vetalapancavirigati, or Pargvanatha Caritra, below. 

 Especially, the manner in which, in the latter account, the Yogin is 

 tempted by circumstances to enter upon his perfidious career is 

 important and primary; the relation of the parrot king to his own 

 queen is worked out much more artistically than in the Persian 

 version. ^^ 



The remaining three versions are strikingly unitarian as to plot, 

 but differ each from the other in some details, in style, and in extent. 

 Merutuhga's version is little more than a table of contents of the 

 little Epic as told in Pargvanatha Caritra (both are Jain texts), 

 although the wording differs a good deal. Merutunga (Bombay, 

 1880) is presumably not very accessible ; I give here the brief text of 

 the original : 



atha kasmirig cid avasare parapurapravegavidyaya nirakrtah 

 sarva api viphala kala iti nigamya tadadhigamaya griparvate bhaira- 

 vanandayoginah samipe grivikramas tam ciram araradha, tat purva- 

 prasevakena kenapi dvijatina raj no 'gre iti kathitam, yat tvaya marii 

 vihaya parapurapravegavidya guror nadeya, ity uparuddho nrpo 

 vidyadanodyatarh gurum vijhapayamasa, yat prathamam asmai dvi- 

 jaya vidyarii dehi pagcan mahyam, he rajan ayarii vidyayah sar- 

 vathanarha iti gurunodite bhuyo-bhiiyas tava pagcat tapo bhavis- 

 yatity upadigya nrpoparodhat tena vipraya vidya pradatta, tatah 



^3 A story similar to that of Lescallier, but differing in many particulars, 

 is told in " Les Mille et Un Jours" (Petis de la Crois), Vol. I., p. 281 

 (jour 57). 



